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ninetieth

/nahyn-tee-ith/US // ˈnaɪn ti ɪθ //UK // (ˈnaɪntɪɪθ) //

第九十次,第九十,第九十届,第九十期

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next after the eighty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 90.
    • : being one of 90 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a ninetieth part, especially of one.
    • : the ninetieth member of a series.

Examples

  • Neither retirement nor a ninetieth birthday slowed his publication rate.

  • The same ideas precisely are found in the ninetieth hymn of the tenth book of the Rig-Veda.

  • Mrs. Singleton is now in her ninetieth year but for some time past has been an invalid.

  • Again, if he be perfectly formed on the forty-fifth day, he will move on the ninetieth and be born in the ninth month.

  • On the evening of his ninetieth birthday the old man went up to his wife and kissed her.

  • It was the hundred and ninetieth mile-post just at her nose, and the dial read eight o'clock and fifty-five minutes to a second.